HYPNAGOGIC DRIFTINGS
for String Quartet 

by W. Brent Sawyer
completed 4/7/2021
approx. length: 5:45 minutes

dedicated to my dear friend, Jeff Updike.

Hypnagogic is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, during the onset of sleep.

I wanted to write in a minimalistic style which I haven't explored before. After the sweeping virtuosity arpeggios in the intro the music is very minimalistic in nature (a la Phillip Glass).